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TLS 1.0 vs. TLS 1.2

TLS 1.0 vs. TLS 1.2 - SQL Server Tutorial

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TLS 1.0 vs. TLS 1.2

- [Instructor] If you're encrypting your connection to SQL Servers, so that that traffics not going over the wire unencrypted, what you're using is TLS, and the history of TLS came from SSL, which as we know stood for Secure Socket Layers. And in short what that was, is the standard technology for connection security and safeguarding any sensitive data that's being sent between two systems, and that's to prevent anybody from sniffing the wire to get personal details. So what that does is ensures that data transfers between two machines, or users and websites, or any two systems is encrypted and remains impossible to read to most users. It scrambles the data and traffic. What we call TLS is an updated, more secure version of SSL, and what TLS stands for is Transport Layer Security. Sometimes you'll still see security certificates called SSL because it's the more commonly used term, but when you're buying SSL certificates, you're actually buying TLS certificates. And one of the other…

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